Cat

A cat is a passive mob found in villages and swamp huts. They can be tamed and used to repel creepers and phantoms.

Contents[]

1Spawning
- 1.1Villages
- 1.2Swamp Hut
- 1.3Bedrock Edition
2Drops
3Appearance
4Behavior
- 4.1Stray cat
- 4.2Tamed cat
- 4.3Gifts
- 4.4Teleportation
5Taming
6Breeding
7Healing
8Sounds
9Data values
- 9.1ID
- 9.2Entity data
  - 9.2.1Cat variants
  - 9.2.2Collar color
- 9.3Advancement criteria
10Achievements
11Advancements
12History
13Issues
14Trivia
15Gallery
- 15.1Screenshots
- 15.2In other media
- 15.3Renders
16References

Spawning[]

Cats can spawn every 1200 ticks (1 minute). A random player is selected (including spectators) and a random location is chosen 8-32 blocks away from the player horizontally in both directions and at the same height. A cat can spawn if that block is less than 2 chunks from a village with fewer than 5 cats, or inside a swamp hut.

Villages[]

Untamed cats spawn in villages as long as there are at least five claimed beds within 48 blocks and at most four cats within a 97×17×97 box centered around the spawn position. Cats that spawn with the creation of a village do not despawn, however, any additional cats that spawn within a village may despawn. A village cat spawns with a random appearance, although black cats may spawn only during a full moon; which works on both Java and Bedrock]^[verify]. The spawning of cats in villages is a separate process from the natural spawning of passive mobs and thus is not affected by the Creature mob cap.

in Bedrock Edition, a village periodically spawns stray cats to fill a quota of 1 cat per 4 owned beds, up to a maximum of 5 cats for 20 or more owned beds. Only owned beds (those currently claimed by a villager) are counted for this purpose. All cats within the village boundaries are counted, including kittens, cats that wander in from outside and even tamed cats owned by a player. If the number of cats found is short of the quota, the village tries to spawn one cat or kitten within a volume of 16 × 6 × 16 blocks centered on the village center. (This is the same volume used when a village spawns an iron golem.)

Swamp Hut[]

One untamed black cat generates alongside a witch inside swamp huts upon world generation. This cat never despawns. Additional cats can spawn within the hut similarly to witches. In Java Edition, any other cats to spawn within the witch hut (from spawn eggs and commands without cat type set) always spawn as black. A new cat does not spawn in a hut if there is already a cat within a 16×8×16 block volume.‌^{[Java Edition only][verify]}

Bedrock Edition[]

25% of cats spawn as kittens. During a full moon, 50% of cats that spawn are black.

Drops[]

Adult cats drop:

0–2 string. This drop is not affected by Looting.
1–3 when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Upon successful breeding, 1–7 is dropped.

Like other baby animals, killing a kitten yields no item or experience.